Redirect to specific page after login

Question

In Java EE security, if a user tries to access a secured resource, they are redirected to the login page. After successful login they are redirected to previously requested secure resource.

Is it possible to redirect the user to a specific page, in my case application entry page?

Something equivalent to Spring Security's default-target-url and always-use-default-target

Answer 1

I ended up creating a Filter just as the Spring Security authentication filters are created. The following Spring Security classes show how they did it.

• http://grepcode.com/file/repo1.maven.org/maven2/org.springframework.security/spring-security-web/3.0.0.RELEASE/org/springframework/security/web/authentication/AbstractAuthenticationProcessingFilter.java

• http://grepcode.com/file/repo1.maven.org/maven2/org.springframework.security/spring-security-web/3.0.0.RELEASE/org/springframework/security/web/authentication/AbstractAuthenticationTargetUrlRequestHandler.java#AbstractAuthenticationTargetUrlRequestHandler

• http://grepcode.com/file/repo1.maven.org/maven2/org.springframework.security/spring-security-web/3.0.0.RELEASE/org/springframework/security/web/DefaultRedirectStrategy.java#DefaultRedirectStrategy